LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Barnhill (1)
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT EASTBOURNE MARCH 20TH. - EASTBOURNE, HASTINGS, AND NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. During the night the London steamer Barnhill, of 5,430 tons, was in the English Channel on her way from Nova Scotia to London. Two of the...
St. Austell, of Barnstaple
St. Ives, Cornwall.—Early on the morning of the 13th June the coastguard telephoned that a vessel about five miles N.N.E. of Clodgy Point was making distress signals. A moderate N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor...
May Fly
Ramsgate, Kent. At 3.28 on the afternoon of the 12th of October, 1959, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that a yacht was unable to make Ramsgate harbour and was dragging her anchor and in danger of going ashore. Six minutes...
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 24 May 1995 show that so far during 1995: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 1,004 times (an average of more than 7 launches a day) 274 lives were saved (an average of 2 a day) Some 11% of...
Category: Articles
Service to North Sea Oil Rig
THE members of the crews of the Scarborough and Teesmouth life-boats have both received framed letters of appreciation signed by the Chairman of the Committee of Management, Captain the Hon V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., for their services on the...
Category: Services
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governor.
The following have been appointed HONOR- ARY LIFE-GOVERNORS of the Institu- tion and have been presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G.,...
Category: Awards
RAC HOMECARE
SECURE THE BEST COVER ITH RAC HOMECARE RATE FOK RIVLI When it comes to home contents insurance it pays to shop around for the best price. One insurance company could charge twice as much as another, for a similar property, in the same...
Category: Advertisement
The Value of Life-Belts on Shipboard
IN an account of the loss of the ship St. Abbs, on the coast of Madagascar, on the 15th of June, 1855, when 22 persons un- fortunately perished, it is recorded that " a seaman saved himself by tying an empty tin oil-can to his back,...
Category: Articles
Armistice Day, 1928
Armistice Day last year was celebrated by the Life-boat Crew at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston in the same way as during the previous two years.
The Crew, headed by the Coxswain and Second Coxswain, each bearing a wreath,...
Category: Articles
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Newquay, Cornwall. At 10.35 p.m.
on 4th July, 1965, the honorary secretary was told that one of two men being pursued by the police had run into the sea at Crantock and was swimming towards West Pentere. At 10.40 the IRB...